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+#!/bin/zsh
+
+# doing a show with no baked-in-pad, but reusing a song from a show that did have it?
+
+IN=$1
+OUT=${IN:r}-unpad.wav
+
+# see notes at https://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/
+sox $IN $OUT silence 1 4 1%   -1 8 0.0%